Delivery apparatus for presses.



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UNITED STATES SAMUEL G. GOSS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE GOSS PRINTING PRESS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DELIVERY APPARATUS FOR PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,751, dated January 29, 1901. Application tiled November 29, 1897. Serial No. 660,050. (N model-J lo @ZZ whom, it may concern: 4 indicates the former, which is suitably Beit known that I, SAMUEL G. Goss, acitimounted. zen of the United States, residing in Chicago, 5 indicates the frame of the delivery appain the county of Cook and State of Illinois, ratus, and 6 7indicate shat'ts suitably mount- 55 5 have invented certain new and useful Imed thereupon at opposite sides of the apex of provements in Delivery Apparatus for the former. The shaft G is mounted in blocks Presses, of which the following is a specifica 8, which are adjustable in boxes 9, as shown tion. in Figs. 1 and 3, so that they may be adjusted My invention relates particularly to delivwhen necessary. 1o ery apparatus for printing-presses, although lO indicates adjusting-screws.

it may be used in connection with other ma- 1l 12 indicate rolls which are mounted on chinery acting upon a web of paper or other the shafts 6 7, respectively. The rolls 11 12 material. are so placed that they are not close enough It has for its object to provide improved to each other to have a drawing grip upon I5 delivery mechanism by the use of which the the' web. At its ends the roll 1l is provided drawing grip will be applied to the Web along with gripping-springs 13, which are curved separated lines, so that the greater part of at their ends and overlap, as illustrated in the surface of the web, and particularly the Fig. 1. 14 indicates similar springs which printed part, will not be gripped to any maare provided at the ends of the roll 12 and are 7o zo terial extent by the delivery devices, which arranged reversely to the springs 13. The construction is of special utility in connecsprings 13 14 project beyond the surfaces of tion with printing machinery, as the printed their respectiverolls, and the opposite springs surfaces of the web are not offset, smeared, 13 14 engage each other, thus forming, in efor otherwise damaged, as is frequently the feet, depressed portions between the ends of 25 case Where the entire surfaces of the Web are the rolls. The length of each roll between gripped tightly by the delivery devices. its spring-grippers is equal to the Width or To this end my invention consists of a feedlength of a printed page, as the case may be, ing-roll for paper-feeding machines having a so that the springs engage the web along the series ofprojectingsprings, (metallic or otherline of the longitudinal margins of the pages, 8o

3o wise,) said springs being annularly arranged as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. By this conand presenting yielding bearing-surfaces. struction the printed portion of the web is It further consists in a pair of coacting rolls not materially engaged, pressed, or rubbed provided with gripping devices consisting of by the surfaces of the rolls, the only points at a series of projecting springs (metallic or othwhich the webs are tightly gripped being along 35 erwise) annularly arranged on one or both of imprinted margins, thus all danger of damsaid rolls. age to the printed part being avoided.

It further consists in providing said rolls In practice the rolls 11 12 are driven at a with a plurality of said gripping devices arslightly-greater speed than that of the web, ranged a suitable distance apart. so that the web is kept taut and prevented 9o 4o My invention also consists in a web-feeding from Wrinkling.

device, consisting of a pair of coasting rolls The grip of the spring-grippers upon the provided with a plurality of elastic metallic Web may be increased or diminished by adgripping devices which grip the web suftijusting the roll 1l by means of the adjusting ciently to draw it, and in certain other speapparatus above described. 45 cific details, which Will be hereinafter pointed Although I have described my invention in out. detail, I do not Wish to be limited to the speciiic In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is construction herein shown and described, as a view of a portion of the former in combivarious modifications may be made without nation with my improved delivery-rolls. Fig. departing from my invention. Ioo 5o 2 is a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 That which I claim as my invention, and

is a plan view of the delivery-rolls. desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A Web-feeding device consisting of a pair of coacting rolls provided with a plurality of elastic metallic gripping devices, substantially as described.

2. A web-feeding device consisting ofa pair of coacting rolls provided with gripping devices consisting of a series of projecting springs annularly arranged on one or both of said rolls, substantially as described.

A web-feeding device consisting of a pair of coacting rolls provided with a gripping device at each end, said gripping device consisting of a series of overlapping springs, substantially as described.

4. A feeding-roll for paper-feeding machines having a series of projecting springs thereon, said springs being annularly arranged and presenting yielding bearing-surfaces, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. A feeding-roll for paper-feeding inachines having a series of projecting overlapping springs thereon, said springs being annularly arranged and presenting yielding bearing-surfaces, substantially as and for the purpose described.

The combination with a longitudinal folder, of a pair of eoacting rolls arranged beloW the apex of said folder, said rolls being provided with Web-gripping devices at each end, each of said gripping devices consisting of a series of overlapping springs, substantially as described.

7. A Web-feeding device consisting of a pair of coacting rolls provided with a gripping device at each end, said gripping device consisting of a series of springs annularly arranged and presenting yielding bearing-su rfaces, substantially as described.

SAMUEL G. GOSS.

`Witnesses:

JOHN L. JACKSON, HOLMES A. TILDEN. 

